A multicenter prospective study to determine the optimal range of lymph node dissection in pancreatic cancer surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (LYMRIN-Trial): Project study by the Japan Pancreas Society and JON 2302-P

• Nana Kimura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kimura, Yoshihiro Shirai, Ayaka Itoh

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

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• Yoshihiro Shirai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kimura, Yoshihiro Shirai, Ayaka Itoh

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-0101

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• Ayaka Itoh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kimura, Yoshihiro Shirai, Ayaka Itoh

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

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• Katsuhisa Hirano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

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• Kazuto Shibuya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9969-5644

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• Kenta Murotani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Biostatistics Center, Kurume University Graduate School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, School of Medical Technology, Kurume University, Kurume-shi, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-9365

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• Makoto Ueno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Sohei Satoi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

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• Hiroaki Nagano,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological, Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

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• Junji Furuse,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yoshifumi Takeyama,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

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• Tsutomu Fujii ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fjt@med.u-toyama.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Assembly, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0625-1911

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• LYMRIN-Trial collaborators